He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
“To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.”